Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you;
your name and renown
are the desire of our hearts.
Isaiah 26:8

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Happy Valentine's Day

Okay - so I am already behind because I had planned to update every Wednesday night and I missed it last night! Oops! For what it is worth, it was an extraordinarily busy day and I was just happy to make it through in one piece! I spent the morning speaking at a MOPS meeting about an hour and a half from here and the treacherous roads made the morning trip about two and a half hours long. Praise God, I made it safely and the talk went very well. It was well received and the ladies were very receptive and gracious! The topic of the talk was Loving and Encouraging Your Husband, and the timing, so near to Valentine's Day, was perfect. Thanks to all who prayed. It is humbling to be used this way, and the responsibility I felt to share the Truth while I had the platform was a little lighter burden knowing I was being upheld in prayer!

As for today, the balmy temperatures, which have been in the mid-twenties, have been a welcomed reprieve from the sub-zero temperatures that have been ravaging our days of late! The weather people are predicting more snow tonight, and I am beginning to wonder where they will put it when they plow!

Enjoy this special day, and take a moment to kiss your spouse and your kiddos and the other loved ones in your life and count them as the blessings that they are...

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In Season

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. ~Sam Keen

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by. ~Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out. ~Bill Watterson

Sarah J Hale

The good, the true, the tender; these form the wealth of home.

Baker's Dozen: Summer nights

Baseball on TV

Bikeride to get ice-cream

Board games at the picnic table

Catch fireflies

Fireworks off the dock

Ice cream and popcorn for supper

Late-night swim with Dad

Long walks to nowhere in particular

Movies and popcorn (up past bedtime!)

Roast Marshmallows for S'mores

Sleeping bags on the screenporch

Soccer in the yard

Tent in the back yard

A word from my friend Jane

Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling.

C.S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Twelve Items or Less: Recipe of the week Sunshine in a Glass

3 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup boiling water

3 cups lemon juice (about 16 lemons)

2 tablespoon grated lemon peel

Directions

To get best juice from lemons, roll firmly in counter before cutting in half. (This is a great part to let little people do!)

To make simple syrup, dissolve sugar in saucepan in boiling water. Cool. Add simple syrup, lemon juice and peel to mason jar and mix well. Screw lid on jar and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Yield: 5-1/2 cups syrup (number of batches varies depending on concentration of lemonade).